Laurie David, the environmentalist married to Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Larry David, is the producer of the new movie, An Inconvenient Truth, about Al Gore and combating global warming. Plus: Ned Lamont, the anti-war Democrat who is seeking to unseat Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman -- his showing at the State Democratic convention has forced a primary in the race; a psychology professor on why she thinks Generation Me is the right moniker for today's young adults; and listeners speak to Brian, and each other, on the topic of English as the national language.
Ned Lamont, candidate for the Democratic nomination for Connecticut's US Senate seat
- why he's trying to unseat Joseph Lieberman
» Lamont for Senate
Laurie David, environmental advocate ad co-producer of An Inconvenient Truth,
- talks about the message in Al Gore's new film about global warming
» An Inconvenient Truth
Jean M. Twenge, associate professor of psychology at San Diego State University and the author, Generation Me : Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled--and More Miserable Than Ever Before (Free Press, 2006)
- on the self-focus of the her generation, the children of the boomers
» Generation Me
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